In generalizing what I have learned from Japanese "conjugations" I learned quite a bit.
I have come to the realization that the same verb forms ARE present in English although English uses cue words ...

Anyone who has ever used Google translate knows that the translated version is mostly grammatically correct but often extremely awkward to use in a conversation.
This is one of the factor which has ...

Many place names in English are anglicizations/transliterations of their native names. Of those, many place names in Asia seem to have undergone a change over the past few decades: they've gone from a ...

Is there a particular reason that Native American names, such as Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Black Hawk, or Red Cloud, are translated into English phrases?
As far as I know, no other culture's names ...

I have a scan of a genealogical document (ca. 1895) from a Catholic church in Brodowe Łąki, Poland. I believe that the document pertains to the baptism of my great-grandmother, but I can't quite be ...

Let's say there are three people, Bob, John and Jane. There are also three languages, L1, L2 and L3.
John is a fluent speaker of L1 and L2. Jane is a fluent speaker of L2 and L3.
Bob only knows L1, ...

I wish to translate into Mongolian the sentence "I have no home", and into Icelandic the sentence "However, I have the road".
I tried Google Translate, but couldn't fully trust the results.
I can't ...

I'm creating a piece language learning software, which will include a component that lets the user read texts with a translation on the side. The texts will be chopped up into segments, and have the ...

I'm a multilingual, and since syntax structures vary between various languages, it seems intuitive to me that translation software use syntactic rules to translate between languages. But when I see ...

I often see this kind of analysis / comparison in linguistic textbooks where they basically provide literal translation of a sentence with grammar notes (like verb tense, noun case etc.). For example:
...

I want to present German users English texts and they need to know the meaning of each individual word. I was thinking to use Google Translate API or Bing Translate API, and request a translation for ...

I'm an absolute rookie with this stuff, but I'm building a translation program, which will hopefully enable people to create their own translators to share with the world. I'm particularly excited for ...

I am researching the "Alexamenos Graffito" from Rome and the various opinions of what the correct translation of the Greek inscription should be.
I know some believe it is "Alexamenos worships (his) ...

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I'm researching machine translation, and trying to read around the subject and understand better how human translators go about translating ...

It may not even be accurate to call it "slang"...
I am working on a filtering system that blocks pornography.
I have a set of key words and phrases in English. Essentially, I would like to have the ...

I'm developing a large chat application; the public beta had over sixty-five thousand participants, so I need the final version to be complete. Hence I am asking this question. My application needs ...

I have a background in natural language processing and machine translation, and recently I've been interested in automatic evaluation of translations.
I've read a lot of literature from the machine ...

I'm working on an application that takes a special database of words and its word class and determines the such from a given sentence. I'm now working to see if word classes that are found in English ...